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Two important Maronite Christian symbols on Sassine Square, Achrafieh: a statue of Saint Charbel, the most important Maronite saint; and a billboard on a side of a building showing Bachir Gemayel, the Maronite militia leader during the Civil War A Christian church and Druze khalwa in Shuf Mountains: In the early 18th century the Maronites and the Druze set the foundation for what is now Lebanon.
The Maronite Christians of Lebanon are the largest Christian denomination among the Lebanese people, representing 21% of the Lebanese population. [33] The Maronite Church's full communion with the Catholic Church was reaffirmed in 1182, after hundreds of years of isolation in Mount Lebanon.
According to the Maronite church, there were approximately 1,062,000 Maronites in Lebanon in 1994, where they constitute up to 32% of the population. [71] Under the terms of the National Pact agreement between the various political and religious leaders of Lebanon, the president of the country must be a Maronite Christian. [72]
According to the U.S. Department of State, Christians make up about 30.5% of Lebanon's population, comprising a diverse community that includes Maronite Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Melchite ...
The men, both Maronite Christians, met to reconcile at the seat of the sect's Patriarch Bechara al-Rai in Bkerki, north of Beirut. Lebanese Christian civil war foes shake hands, make up after 40 years
BEIRUT (Reuters) -Lebanon’s top Christian cleric said on Sunday the constitution and democratic system had been violated in "cold blood" during a failed attempt to elect a new president last ...
In 687, as part of an agreements with Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, Byzantine emperor Justinian II sent 12,000 Christian Maronites from Lebanon to Armenia, [27] in exchange for a substantial payment and half the revenues of Cyprus. [19] There they were conscripted as rowers and marines in the Byzantine navy. [28]
Lebanon's Christian Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros al-Rai called on the cabinet on Sunday to resign as it cannot "change the way it governs" the country and help it to recover from Tuesday's ...